ABSTRACT
Pathic aesthetics, which focuses on the atmospheres expressed by ongoing situations, implicitly involves an intense valorization of the appearance of phenomena. Consumed either by the future, by all sorts of goals and deadlines, or by the past – apparently the only guarantee that something is a fact – people usually end up disregarding the present and presence. Regardless of Gumbrecht’s models of the sportsman or opera singer, a neo-phenomenological rehabilitation of presence/present focuses, more generally, on appearances or signifiers not necessarily coupled with a meaning: physiognomies without interiority. Like the importance of the presence, the importance of the present was also strongly reduced in 20th century philosophy. The next step is to evaluate the link between presence and felt-bodily dimension. In fact, we felt-bodily communicate with everything that is other because we feel its presence-present through our felt-bodily presence, that is, through a resonance understood as one of many possibilities contained in the intracorporeal economy of contraction and expansion.
